Apple Maps may have had a shaky start, but it has undoubtedly grown very compelling over the years. One area that’s still hit or miss, though, is integrations with third-party services like Yelp. But that Yelp integration is about to get better.

Today Yelp debuting in its end-of-year release.

There’s one change especially geared for Apple Maps users, but a lot more that will likely benefit Maps users in the future too.

First, a new Request a Quote feature is

Apple Originals have this year notched up a total of nine Golden Globe nominations, including Slow Horses for Best Drama.

No fewer than seven actors have picked up outstanding performance nominations across four different shows, with winners set to be announced on January 5 …

The nominations are:

• Best Television Series — Drama
• Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series, Drama — Gary Oldman
• Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television — Jack Lowden

• Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

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Apple actually built a working cellular MacBook as a prototype all the way back in 2007, and Bloomberg reports that the company may finally release one using its own radio chip.

Steve Jobs was not sold on the idea at the time, for two reasons, but neither of those would apply today. So 18 years later, is it finally time … ?

Asked about a cellular MacBook back in 2008, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs said that the company had “considered” it,

Apple Music has an expansion of its radio offerings today, with three brand new stations featuring live hosts and curation.

Within Apple Music, users will find algorithmic ‘radio stations’ based on artists you like. You might see stations, for example, based on Taylor Swift, or even your own personal station based on your listening history.

But in the more traditional sense of the word ‘radio,’ Apple also offers radio stations with live hosts and human-curated music. Examples include:

• Apple Music 1
• Apple Music

, a leader in bare-metal Mac cloud services, has announced its latest lineup of dedicated offerings powered by Apple’s new M4 and M4 Pro chips. Designed with developers and IT professionals in mind, these new services bring speed, flexibility, and affordability to the forefront with instant access when you sign up.

Built around the world’s fastest CPU core, the M4 Pro, MacWeb’s new Mac mini configurations are tailored to boost developer productivity while reducing infrastructure overhead. Eric Bickford, CEO

Adobe and Box on Tuesday announced a new partnership that will integrate services from both companies. Starting today, Box users will have access to the Adobe Express image editor directly from the cloud platform, so that they can create and edit visual content without the need to open another website or app.

For those unfamiliar, Adobe Express is a cloud-based image editor that lets users create graphics, PDF documents and other digital assets. With the partnership, Adobe Express becomes the default image editor for Box users on the web.

Vision Pro is gadget of the year, according to Popular Science. The device was also the magazine’s pick as overall innovation of the year.

PopSci acknowledges the “massive price tag” of Apple’s spatial computer, but says that it represents the first step in a new direction for the company …

highlighted the visual quality and seamless user interface as factors in its decision.

From a hardware perspective, this headset offers a 23-million-pixel screen, which dishes out more than 4K quality to

Thousands of CSAM victims are suing Apple for dropping plans to scan devices for the presence of child sexual abuse materials.

In addition to facing more than $1.2B in penalties, the company could be forced to reinstate the plans it dropped after many of us pointed to the risk of misuse by repressive regimes …

The story so far

Most cloud computing services routinely scan user accounts for child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), using a digital fingerprinting method.

These fingerprints are a way to match known CSAM images without anyone